US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran's assertions that a document published by a British daily about Tehran's nuclear program is a fabrication.
According to a former CIA official, US intelligence agents have found that the document, which was published by the Times of London on December 14, was fabricated by Israel or Britain, the Inter Press Service (IPS) reported on Monday.
The IPS report was penned by renowned investigative journalist Gareth Porter.
Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say the US had nothing to do with forging the document.
He added, however, that US intelligence sources mainly suspect Israel of carrying out the forgery, although, they do not rule out the possibility of the British having played a part in it.

It's a wonder that Israeli intelligence 'reports' on Iraq's so-called nuclear program weren't similarly exposed before the US invaded. On the bright side, the fact that someone in the US government is going to some lengths to discredit Israel as a source of intelligence means that someone is trying to prevent a war with Iran.

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Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

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This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. Giraldi identified the individual or office responsible for creating the two most notorious forged documents in recent U.S. intelligence history.

In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George W. Bush administration to bolster its false case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme.

Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.

It makes one wonder how many reports are forged or fabricated, and the countless number of lives lost or damaged because of them. The CIA official going public with this information will probably be harassed, but his conscience is clear. I wonder if we will hear about this on Hannity?

I think that the world has been lied to about Iran by Israel, Iran is not the enemy that the media makes them out to be, they are however an enemy to Israel because they won't play by Israels rules. So my opinion is, that anyone who dislikes Iran is way off track.

It makes one wonder how many reports are forged or fabricated, and the countless number of lives lost or damaged because of them. The CIA official going public with this information will probably be harassed, but his conscience is clear. I wonder if we will hear about this on Hannity?

You won't hear Hannity or any of the so called patriot radio talk show hosts say anything negative about Israel.

Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.

I think that the world has been lied to about Iran by Israel, Iran is not the enemy that the media makes them out to be, they are however an enemy to Israel because they won't play by Israels rules. So my opinion is, that anyone who dislikes Iran is way off track.

In case you are young and don't remember, America never had much of a problem with Muslims before America sided with Israel.
The 40s,50s and 60s with few exceptions were peaceful years for the Muslims and Americans. They used to say the Muslims hated America for our freedoms, And you know who (they) were?

I remember buying gas for my lawnmower in the late 60s at 15 cents a gallon because the Saudi's were our friends. I used to be a paper boy too so I kept up with the news somewhat.